Genesis and Reception of the Continental Drift Hypothesis

Today, continental drift is an established truth that was advocated by Alfred Wegener in the year 1912. However, the journey of this theory towards its universal acceptance was not straight forward. In the beginning, it was thought to be merely an alternative to the biblical flood and land bridges to explain parallelism among the continents. There were technological gaps in gathering pieces of evidence in favour of the theory. But as a result of the constant perseverance of a group of truth finders, both in the field and laboratory, from the end of the 1970s, the continental drifting no longer remains a hypothetical proposition but has become an unequivocal reality. Herein, authors have tried to focus on the devotions of those truth-seekers for the continental drifting in brief.